Comments on: African Poverty is Falling…Much Faster than You Think!http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/african-poverty/
A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspectiveTue, 31 Mar 2015 20:46:34 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: jsohttp://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/african-poverty/#comment-202775
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:25:51 +0000http://192.168.200.139/?p=13269#comment-202775if you like this story then you probably won’t want to see this:

looks like someone’s got a hard on against capitalism for “stealing from the third world”

]]>By: Tim Worstallhttp://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/african-poverty/#comment-202774
Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:22:57 +0000http://192.168.200.139/?p=13269#comment-202774There are other papers which tell very much the same story.

“Measures of real consumption based upon the ownership of durable goods,
the quality of housing, the health and mortality of children, the education of youth
and the allocation of female time in the household indicate that sub-Saharan living
standards have, for the past two decades, been growing in excess of 3 percent per
annum, i.e. more than three times the rate indicated in international data sets.”